☆Let us create the future with hope☆世界の人口増大に伴って、世界的な大きな課題となってきた食料問題の解決方策及び国際的な雇用創出の増大を目的として、大規模な浮体式洋上構造物上において、世界中の市民の参加による共同組織体制を創生し、地球の約７０％の表面積の海洋を有効に利用して、自然再生循環系（sustainable)の新しい産業・経済体系を創生させるプロジェクト構想を公海の海上に構築する。
例えば、国際的な教育施設も洋上構築物に併設し、洋上での大規模な農林産物・牧畜・水産物の栽培や洋上太陽光発電や洋上風力発電等のプロジェクト等を構築・発展させる。
青年達の夢と希望を世界な規模に拡げながら、国際的な協力で、希望のある未来のために、平和で、紛争のない、安寧な世界を創って行きましょう。

Undersea Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered

Erupting oil paved the seafloor with mysterious mounds

Ed Keller, a scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, looked at sonar maps collected by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and first noticed mysterious mounds poking out of the seafloor off Santa Barbara. He offered theories of what they were in a paper published in 2007. (Edward A. Keller, University of California, Santa Barbara)

In 2007, UCSB scientist Dave Valentine (right) and WHOI scientist Chris Reddy investigated the largest mound in the submersible Alvin. Using Alvin's manipulator they brought back a large sample of rock from the undersea dome called Il Duomo.They could heft it easily because it was made of asphalt, the solidified residue of oil. (Molly Redmond, University of California, Santa Barbara)

The WHOI undersea vehicle Sentry collected sonar data to create this map of the undersea asphalt mound called Il Duomo, the largest of seven similar domes in the Santa Barbara Channel. It covers twice the area of a football field and rises 30 meters, or six stories, above the seafloor. The scale at right is in meters below the sea surface.
(Dana Yoerger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The area around Santa Barbara is very geologically active, because of the movement of the San Andreas and other faults. Extensive faulting or rupturing in the Earth allows oil and gas from subterranean reservoirs to seep up to the seafloor and ultimately into the ocean and to the atmosphere. But some oil solidifies to create asphalt volcanoes.
(Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The dome-like mounds poking up in sonar maps of the seafloor caught scientists’ eyes. They stood out in stark contrast to the surrounding environment off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.“They came up very suddenly out of the seafloor: There were seven of them. The largest we called Il Duomo, and it is about the size of two football fields side by side and as tall as a six-story building,” said David Valentine, an earth scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
“Nobody knew what the domes were made of,” said Chris Reddy, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
One of Valentine’s colleagues, Ed Keller, had spotted them, and in 2006 he suggested some possibilities. Large deposits of carbonate rock? Mud volcanoes created by mammoth burps of subsea natural gas? Or, most intriguing to Valentine and Reddy, perhaps they were remnants of oil that had erupted from the seafloor, hardened, and piled high to form something never seen before—volcanoes made naturally out of the same material that people use to pave roads: asphalt.
In 2007, off Santa Barbara aboard the research vessel Atlantis,Valentine and Reddy seized an opportunity to use the submersible Alvin to investigate the mysterious mounds. They reported what they found April 25, 2010, in the journal Nature Geoscience. We interviewed the two scientists on a bi-coastal conference call.

Valentine: We dove down, and it took us a few hours to find the mounds. There’s no light at that depth. It’s only in the artificial lighting of the submarine that you see it. It looked like something flowing that had solidified in place, very much like lava. Also, a lot of organisms were living on the surface (see audio slideshow).
We were able to use the robotic arm of the submarine to crack off pieces of the rock, and the fact that they cracked off easily told us, well, this is not some really tough rock. This is something like a tar, perhaps. As soon as we ascended back to the Atlantis, I knew we had to bring in our oil chemistry guru Chris Reddy to analyze these rocks. Of course, he had worked all the last night and was sleeping at the time, but that was not going to stop us.Reddy: One of the undergrads woke me up, saying, “You’ve got to get on deck and look at this sample that Dave brought up!” I broke off a little piece with some pliers and ground it, like a mortar and pestle, with the back of a Bic pen. I added some nail polish remover, and sure enough, the rock completely dissolved in no time, which immediately said to me that this was tar. And I remember turning to Dave and saying, “We’ve got to go back! Please take me back there. I want to dive on it.”Oceanus: Tell us about that dive.Reddy: It was an amazing experience flying along in Alvin on this relatively unremarkable seafloor, and all of a sudden, this black wall, this mountain, is staring you in the face. There were all types of life forms living on this mountain. It was essentially an oasis. Many life forms like something hard to clamp onto. It was almost like an artificial reef, except it was an asphalt reef.
We brought a big sample back from the seafloor, as big as Dave and I. I’ll never forget that we picked it up off the deck and held it. Had this been cement or rock or marble, we would have been Charles Atlas or Arnold Schwarzenegger times 10.Oceanus: How did this form?Valentine: The area around Santa Barbara is very geologically active, because of the movement of the San Andreas Fault. There’s an extensive amount of faulting or rupturing in the Earth that allows oil and gas from subterranean reservoirs to seep up to the seafloor and ultimately into the ocean and to the atmosphere.
What we think happened here is that as oils worked their way up and became exposed at the seafloor, little organisms and pieces of sediment began accumulating in the oils and making them heavier. Also some of their lighter, more gasoline-like compounds quickly dissolved into the ocean or wafted away, leaving behind the heavier compounds. The material became heavier than the seawater and began to settle back down to the seafloor. At that point, it began to flow downslope in a way that looks very much like a Hawaiian lava flow.
Nothing exactly like these features has been found before under the sea. The famous La Brea Tar Pits are in some ways an on-land version of this sort of phenomenon.Oceanus: The La Brea Tar pits are famous for their preserved fossils. How about Il Duomo?Reddy: Fossil organisms were essentially entombed in the oil from Il Duomo. Dave took a big hunk of rock and washed all the oil away. And what was left over was sand, and in that sand were these little fossils from plankton. Those plankton acted as a clock for us, because we were able to radiocarbon-date their shells. That allowed us to estimate that the eruption that created Il Duomo occurred 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, along with a lot of other big events.Oceanus: Like what?Valentine: The Santa Barbara Basin is an excellent chronometer of past events because sediments rapidly deposit into the center of the basin. In those sediments are records of past events in which methane gas rapidly entered the Santa Barbara Basin, even driving it to the point of anoxia, where no oxygen remains in the water, and probably creating a giant “dead zone.”
Around the asphalt volcanoes are large pits, several times larger than the volcanoes. These are evidence of large pockets of subterranean methane gas bursting at the seafloor.
I suspect that there is a relationship tying together all these features with the eruption of both oil and gas, the anoxia, and probably the movements of faults in the vicinity that set things in motion.Oceanus: That’s fascinating geologically, but what’s in it for a marine chemist who studies oils spills?Reddy: In my oil-spill experience, I generally study oil that is days, weeks, months, maybe decades old. This was oil I’ve never seen before. This was a chance to find out what nature does to oil that has been around for 35,000 years.
We cracked open a piece of the asphalt and we immediately felt like we were at a gas station. Despite the fact that it was so old, it still retained some oil compounds that hadn’t been weathered away.
We analyzed some of this oil with advanced technology in my lab called comprehensive, two-dimensional gas chromatography. It showed us that nature had removed many of the compounds in the oil that had been abundant when Il Duomo erupted. And it left behind molecules in the asphalt that had been trace compounds in the oil when it erupted.
When you look at the compounds’ chemical structures—how the carbon atoms are attached to each other, and especially in three-dimensional space—you start to get a feeling for why this happened. The compounds that remained are very big molecules, so, for one thing, they don’t dissolve in water and get transported away.
In addition, if you could put yourself in the shoes of a microbe, and ask yourself, “could I eat this molecule?,” the answer would be “No, you can’t. It’s just too damn big. It’s too hard to break it down into digestible bits.” So if microbes were to survey the buffet of compounds in oil, they would say, “We can eat this; we can eat that; but, man, we can’t eat that.” and “that”—those big compounds—was what we found remaining in the samples. So by looking at these rocks, we learned a lot about how well nature’s microbes can degrade oil.Valentine: A next stepis to more closely examine the microorganisms that degrade the oil—maybe even try to find DNA of organisms that were trapped in the asphalt like in the La Brea Tar Pits.Oceanus: You mentioned that there was a lush variety of life on the volcanoes.Reddy: Some of the samples we brought back to the surface also had these perfectly cylindrical holes. They looked like they were made by the best drill you could buy at Home Depot. We didn’t know what they were. We were sitting there, measuring the holes, taking pictures, and the next thing you know, we see a worm crawling right out of a hole. Are these worms boring into this relatively soft asphalt as a hideout to avoid predators? That’s another research project to explore.Oceanus: What other research will you pursue on these asphalt volcanoes?Valentine: Another future direction would be to drill into these asphalt volcanoes and turn this over to geologists to examine the underlying layers, find out just how far down they go, and figure out exactly what’s going on down below—where this oil is coming from and how it’s getting there.
We’d also want to determine the abundance and distribution of these features in this region and beyond. How common are asphalt volcanoes? So there are a lot of fascinating questions remaining.Oceanus: What does this discovery mean for future oil drilling prospects?Valentine: There’s a moratorium on new drilling in the Santa Barbara region. Our finding does raise questions about the potential for oil and gas underneath this region, though it also tells us that some of the oil that once was there is now gone.
—Lonny LippsettThe research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and The Seaver Foundation.

Let's create hopeful future. Let's create the harmonic, peaceful, sustainable and modern social structures in the global world. Let's create those Harmonic Worlds such as Heavens or Paradises were made by the gods and many ancestors. It will be able to make those world. I think it is possible to make up them. Let's create those New Global World like Paradises of the Super Floating Structures such as the Noah's Ark with people having the good will in the international cooperation at the ocean's surfaces．

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【Let's Create Future with Hope】Let's make Sustainable world with hope for future. Let's make “Offshore Structure such as Noah's Ark”. Anti-nuclear power 世界の人口増大にともなって、生まれてくる食料問題が世界的な大きな課題となってきた。中国やインド、アジア・アフリカ諸国等の人口増大に伴って、食料資源や産業用の鉱物資源の争奪・獲得競争の激化による国際紛争の多発が予想ではなくなり、現実に、我々の生活に、影響を与え始めてきている。

Matt R. Simmons to Address GMREC III during Thursday, April 15th Luncheon
March 12, 2010 by TMarieHilton
Filed under Announcements, Blog,
OREC Newsroom Matthew R. Simmons is Chairman Emeritus of Simmons &
Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm.
The firm has completed approximately 770 investment banking projects for its
worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $140 billion.
Mr. Simmons was raised in Kaysville, Utah. He graduated cum laude from the
University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business
School.
He served on the faculty of Harvard Business School as a Research Associate
for two years and was a Doctoral Candidate.
Mr. Simmons began a small investment bank/advisory firm in Boston.
Among his early clients were several subsea service companies. By 1973,
almost all of his clients were oil service companies.
Following the 1973 Oil Shock, Simmons decided to create a Houston-based firm
to concentrate on providing highest quality investment banking advice to the
worldwide oil service industry. Over time, the specialization expanded into
investment banking covering all aspects of the global energy industry.
SCI’s offices are located in Houston, Texas; London, England; Boston,
Massachusetts; Aberdeen, Scotland and Dubai, UAE. In 2007, Mr. Simmons founded
The Ocean Energy Institute in Mid-Coast Maine.
The Institute’s focus is to research and create renewable energy sources from
all aspects of our oceans.
Simmons serves on the Board of Directors of Houston
Technology Center (Houston) and the Center for Houston’s Future (Houston).
He also serves on The University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Foundation Board of Visitors (Houston) and is a Trustee of the Bermuda Institute
for Ocean Sciences.
In addition, he is past Chairman of the National Ocean
Industry Association.
Mr. Simmons is a past President of the Harvard Business School Alumni
Association and a former member of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business
School.
He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, Council on Foreign
Relations and The Atlantic Council of the United States.
Mr. Simmons is a
Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Island Institute
and Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.
Mr. Simmons’ recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming
Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on the Wall Street
Journal’s best-seller list.
He has also published numerous energy papers for
industry journals and is a frequent speaker at government forums, energy
symposiums and in boardrooms of many leading energy companies around the world.

Mr. Simmons is married and has five daughters. His hobbies include watercolors,
cooking, writing and travel.

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Prisident Obama 氏の支援グループへの私のメール

President Obama 氏の支援グループへの私のメール

How do you do.

My name is yuuji matuoka , as a civil ocean engineer in japan , age 61.
I want to show my presentation about the ocean development aiming at making the peaceful world to the President of Obama USA. ( : My this presentation is always my lifework. )

How do you come to be able to do it from poor life in rich life?

How to
change to be able to do it from the poor people to the plentful people?

The Ocean Development was presented by J.F.Kennedy before about 40 years
ago.

Here are many objects on the subjects in these difficult big projects, but I believe it will be possible and succeed.

Those many projects will be able to make up many jobs for worldwide people.

The best leader will be present both The hope and The Dream for many
people believing the leader.

Please show to USA President Obama my presentation.

I hope USA President Mr.Obama will succeed as Best excellent top leader in the world at
21century.

Ocean Wave Energy

Ocean Wave Energy

Google — 2007年07月23日 — Google Tech Talks
November 8, 2006

ABSTRACT
The World Energy Council has estimated the 'useful' global ocean wave energy resource as 2TW (17,500TWh/year). From this it has been estimated (Thorpe 1999) that the practical economic contribution from wave energy converters could be 2,000TWh/year (similar to current installed nuclear or hydroelectric generation capacity). Such generating capacity could result in up to 2 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions being displaced from fossil fuel generation per year - similar to current emissions from electricity generation in the US.

Formed in 1998, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed the 'Pelamis' wave energy converter...

10 Hours of Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (Water Prelude - Kevin MacLeod)

Oceania iWhales : Whale Song

Playing With Beluga Babies! So cute!

アップロード日: 2010/08/02
Playing with beluga babies (Eve, Sasha, Mira, Charlotte and Neva) at Marineland. There are also a few mother belugas that came over as well (Xena and Kelowna). You can see the newest baby Qila and her mother Isis swim by.

Name the Baby Beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium

November 09, 2009 Beautiful footage of the Vancouver Aquarium's baby beluga, which was born earlier this summer. Additionally, the Vancouver Aquarium is asking Canadians to help them pick a name for the little girl. Submit your suggestions here!

Name the Baby Beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium

This summer I had the chance to visit the Vancouver Aquarium for the first time in about a decade. What I discovered was that it was far from simply being a tourist attraction and an entertainment destination. It’s a valuable research facility, a way to teach children about sustainability and its impact on animals and the environment, and the staff are some of the nicest people you’ll meet.

In a news release this morning, the Vancouver Aquarium announced a contest to name the newest addition to their family, Qila’s baby beluga calf.

Starting today (Monday, September 29), Canadians are invited to visit the Vancouver Aquarium website at www.vanaqua.org to submit a name suggestion.
Submissions will be accepted up to 11:59 p.m. Friday, October 10, 2008. Our panel of judges will select five â€œfinalistâ€ names, and Vancouver Aquarium Members will vote on their favourite. The winning name will be published in the Vancouver Sun and announced live on Global Televisionâ€™s morning news Friday, October 24, 2008.
Five prizes each consisting of an annual Vancouver Aquarium family membership will be randomly awarded from all contest entries. The membership provides admission to the Vancouver Aquarium for one year for two adults and three children (ages 4-18)

The Grand Prize winner will receive a â€œone of a kindâ€ Beluga Encounter with the baby, Qila and Aurora hosted by our veterinarian and our Marine Mammal Curator. Plus, the grand prize also includes an annual Vancouver Aquarium family membership and a $150.00 (CAD) gift certificate from the Gift Shop at the Aquarium.

You can watch the baby on the Aquarium’s Beluga Cam for some inspiration or visit the Vancouver Aquarium for a closer look.